Archive for: February, 2012

H2O Now Selling Prepaid Unlimited 4G Broadband for $50 per Month

H2O Wireless, once known as O2 Wireless, has taken live what it claims is the first prepaid 4G unlimited Internet access with its Bolt 4G Unlimited plan. The $50 rate both sheds contracts and ‘secret’ fees such as activation. The company is hoping to match Clear’s rates for WiMAX with as much simplicity as possible. […]

Cisco Annual Report Shows Mobile Data Spikes – Traffic Up 133%

Cisco in a yearly state-of-affairs report on Tuesday showed both a rapid growth in data and aggressive predictions for the next four years. Mobile data use had grown 133 percent over the course of 2011, which it didn’t see slowing down. As mobile viewers got more devices as well as faster connections, video use would […]

HP Intros Z1 AIO Workstation with Tool-Less Design

HP’s latest Z1 Workstation claims to be the first of its kind with a 27-inch screen. It easily opens without any tools so parts can be swapped quickly and easily. On offer is Intel’s 3.33GHz Core i3 for a processor, but it also carries one of two Xeons, either the 3.3GHz E3-1245 or the 3.5GHz […]

Lumia 610, 808, three Ashas May Be Coming to MWC

Exactly which handsets Nokia will reveal at the upcoming Mobile World Congress show and its February 27 press conference may have been leaked to PocketNow. There will reportedly be six new phones unveiled, including three smartphones and three feature phones. The Windows Phone-powered devices would be the Lumia 900 and Lumia 610, while the 808 […]

TI WiLink 8.0 Combo Wireless Chip Drops Power – Support NFC, ANT+, WiFi

TI kicked off the week with a new all-in-one wireless chip that could make NFC (near-field communications) much easier. The WiLink 8.0 is the first of its kind to build NFC into the chip alongside Bluetooth, FM radio, GNSS positioning, Wi-Fi, and even ANT+ for exercise and . It both shrinks the size of a […]

PS Vita OS Offers Sony an Additional Mobile Option to Android

Sony is mulling the possibility of extending is PS Vita operating system to other devices, according to AV Watch. Incoming CEO Kaz Hirai reportedly mentioned the idea to reporters during a Japanese Q&A session suggesting that, in addition to Android, the PS Vita OS offered additional scope for the company beyond gaming. The view was […]

VLC 2.0 Will Gain Blu-ray Support in OS X, 64-bit in Windows

VideoLAN says it is working on a major v2.0 update of VLC, the group’s free, open-source media player software. The project is described as a complete rewrite, one which will add major features to different platforms. The Mac version, for instance, will gain Blu-ray playback, a native fullscreen mode in Lion, and an overhauled interface, […]

ThinkGeek Unveils iCade 8-Bitty Controller

ThinkGeek picked the American International Toy Fair to bring out the iCade 8-Bitty, a much more portable alternative to the iCade cabinet. The wireless iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch gamepad is conspicuously styled like (though not identical to) the original NES controller with four face buttons, Select and Start, although it also has two shoulder […]

Roku Now Sports BBC iPlayer for the UK Launch

When Roku said it would start shipping its media streaming boxes to the U.K. for the first time last month, there significant missing local media power -the BBC’s iPlayer. The iPlayer is responsible for nearly two billion viewings in 2011 alone in the UK. Well  Roku is announcing that it’s launching an iPlayer channel for […]

Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Sells 3.2 Million Units Its First Weekend

Summit Entertainment has announced that The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 sold 3.2 million units in its first weekend of release, topping The Twilight Saga: Eclipse sales by about 18%: Summit Entertainment, a LIONSGATE® company, announced today that the home entertainment release of the current installment in the studio’s blockbuster TWILIGHT SAGA film […]

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